Apache Contracts

Apache HTTP Server (httpd)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apache skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 192 290
Rank change year-on-year -72 +98 +14
Contract jobs citing Apache 307 535 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.24% 0.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.68% 12.01% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 461 385
10th Percentile £388 £413 £438
25th Percentile £463 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -2.04%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £775
90th Percentile £875 £888 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 14
10th Percentile £38.21 £36.75 £52.65
25th Percentile £64.24 £48.75 £72.38
Median hourly rate £79.35 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% -10.26% +42.32%
75th Percentile £80.74 £74.44 £88.25
90th Percentile £82.07 £75.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.35 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +13.36% -10.26% +22.61%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Apache falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,537 4,453 6,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 10.28% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,292 3,096 4,140
10th Percentile £289 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £643
90th Percentile £717 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 157 163
10th Percentile £17.56 £13.51 £16.32
25th Percentile £26.39 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.69% -38.83% +130.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.74 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £33.56 £46.75
% change year-on-year +56.45% -28.22% +133.75%

Apache
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache in the UK

Apache
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache.

Daily rate trend for Apache in the UK

Apache
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache.

Hourly rate trend for Apache in the UK

Apache
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache in the UK

Apache
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -60 281 £626 -16.60% 730
London -75 186 £750 - 423
Work from Home -70 117 £750 -6.25% 341
UK excluding London +48 95 £550 +15.79% 346
North of England +4 26 £425 -15.00% 79
South East +47 23 £600 +41.18% 55
North West +12 16 £358 -29.80% 41
South West +38 12 £563 +5.53% 69
Midlands +9 12 £575 +37.31% 60
East of England +33 11 £483 +28.67% 42
West Midlands +6 9 £600 -7.69% 34
Yorkshire +1 9 £625 +35.14% 26
Scotland +3 5 £463 +12.80% 24
Wales +4 3 - - 9
East Midlands -2 3 £410 -0.61% 26
Northern Ireland -11 3 £410 - 10
North East - 1 £650 - 12

Apache
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 114 (37.13%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (34.85%) Apache Spark
3 18 (5.86%) Confluence
4 15 (4.89%) IIS
5 14 (4.56%) nginx
5 14 (4.56%) Tomcat
6 12 (3.91%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.26%) JBoss
8 6 (1.95%) Camunda
9 5 (1.63%) CMS
9 5 (1.63%) Jupyter
10 4 (1.30%) Alfresco
10 4 (1.30%) Drupal
10 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (1.30%) WordPress
11 3 (0.98%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.98%) WebLogic Portal
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.65%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 166 (54.07%) AWS
2 88 (28.66%) dbt
3 69 (22.48%) Azure
4 68 (22.15%) Snowflake
5 55 (17.92%) GCP
6 35 (11.40%) Serverless
7 27 (8.79%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (8.14%) OpenShift
10 23 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.56%) GitHub
13 13 (4.23%) Power Platform
14 11 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.58%) DNS
2 7 (2.28%) Firewall
3 5 (1.63%) SMTP
4 4 (1.30%) Internet
4 4 (1.30%) SSH
4 4 (1.30%) SSL
4 4 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.98%) DHCP
6 2 (0.65%) HTTP
7 1 (0.33%) FTP
7 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
7 1 (0.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.33%) SAN
7 1 (0.33%) Telnet
7 1 (0.33%) VPN
7 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (23.45%) Amazon Athena
1 72 (23.45%) Apache Iceberg
2 67 (21.82%) Apache Arrow
2 67 (21.82%) Dremio
3 65 (21.17%) Big Data
4 58 (18.89%) Data Lake
5 52 (16.94%) Apache Ignite
6 42 (13.68%) Hadoop
7 37 (12.05%) SQL Server
8 35 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (9.45%) MySQL
10 27 (8.79%) MongoDB
11 23 (7.49%) Delta Lake
11 23 (7.49%) Flink
11 23 (7.49%) Relational Database
12 19 (6.19%) BigQuery
13 18 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (5.86%) NoSQL
14 15 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (14.01%) Git
2 34 (11.07%) Jenkins
3 29 (9.45%) JIRA
4 17 (5.54%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.28%) GitLab
7 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.63%) JUnit
7 5 (1.63%) MLflow
8 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.30%) ER Studio
8 4 (1.30%) ERwin
8 4 (1.30%) MSI
8 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.30%) RStudio
8 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.30%) Subversion
9 3 (0.98%) Gerrit
9 3 (0.98%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 107 (34.85%) Finance
2 71 (23.13%) Front Office
3 67 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 66 (21.50%) Banking
5 57 (18.57%) Investment Banking
6 27 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.86%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.63%) Law
9 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.30%) Legal
10 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (29.64%) Data Engineer
2 85 (27.69%) AWS Engineer
3 69 (22.48%) Developer
4 68 (22.15%) Senior
5 64 (20.85%) Software Engineer
6 59 (19.22%) Python Engineer
7 53 (17.26%) AWS Software Engineer
8 45 (14.66%) Java Engineer
9 43 (14.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (13.03%) Python Software Engineer
11 35 (11.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (11.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (10.75%) Senior Java Engineer
13 33 (10.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 29 (9.45%) Java Developer
15 24 (7.82%) AWS DevOps
16 23 (7.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 20 (6.51%) AWS Developer
18 18 (5.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 18 (5.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (23.45%) Kafka
2 69 (22.48%) PySpark
3 46 (14.98%) Pandas
4 44 (14.33%) NumPy
5 43 (14.01%) Apache NiFi
6 39 (12.70%) Protocol Buffers
7 38 (12.38%) gRPC
8 37 (12.05%) SciPy
9 28 (9.12%) AngularJS
10 23 (7.49%) React
11 22 (7.17%) HTML
12 18 (5.86%) XML
13 17 (5.54%) Spring
14 16 (5.21%) CSS
14 16 (5.21%) Web Services
15 14 (4.56%) .NET
15 14 (4.56%) J2EE
15 14 (4.56%) JSON
16 13 (4.23%) LAMP
16 13 (4.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.26%) Fixed Income
2 51 (16.61%) Derivative
2 51 (16.61%) Equities
2 51 (16.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 51 (16.61%) Hedge funds
3 30 (9.77%) Pricing Data
4 17 (5.54%) PKI
5 15 (4.89%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.23%) Distributed Computing
7 12 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.58%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.93%) Mobile App
10 8 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.61%) Market Risk
11 7 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.15%) Linux
2 25 (8.14%) Windows
3 23 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (4.56%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.23%) CentOS
5 13 (4.23%) Unix
6 5 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.98%) Debian
7 3 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.33%) AIX
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Rocky
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (43.32%) Agile
2 105 (34.20%) DevOps
3 93 (30.29%) Software Engineering
4 90 (29.32%) CI/CD
5 86 (28.01%) Data Pipeline
6 68 (22.15%) Asset Management
7 63 (20.52%) ETL
8 62 (20.20%) Analytics
8 62 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (19.54%) Data Engineering
10 41 (13.36%) Data Modelling
11 38 (12.38%) Data Governance
12 36 (11.73%) Data Management
13 34 (11.07%) Workflow
14 32 (10.42%) Containerisation
14 32 (10.42%) Investment Management
15 31 (10.10%) Data Science
16 26 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
17 25 (8.14%) Scrum
18 23 (7.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 201 (65.47%) Python
2 133 (43.32%) Java
3 113 (36.81%) SQL
4 70 (22.80%) JavaScript
5 43 (14.01%) TypeScript
6 29 (9.45%) Scala
7 19 (6.19%) Go
8 18 (5.86%) Bash
9 17 (5.54%) PHP
10 9 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.28%) C#
12 6 (1.95%) C++
12 6 (1.95%) Perl
12 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.98%) Groovy
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Rust
14 1 (0.33%) VB
14 1 (0.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 81 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.40%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.23%) Degree
5 8 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.65%) PhD
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CSPO
10 1 (0.33%) MCP
10 1 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.51%) QA
3 13 (4.23%) GDPR
4 9 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.98%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.65%) Section 508
6 2 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 57 (18.57%) Docker
2 15 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 4 (1.30%) vSphere
6 3 (0.98%) LXC
6 3 (0.98%) vCloud
6 3 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.65%) HDFS
7 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.33%) KVM
8 1 (0.33%) NFS
8 1 (0.33%) Samba
8 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (22.80%) Kubernetes
2 51 (16.61%) Terraform
3 35 (11.40%) Ansible
4 16 (5.21%) Kibana
5 11 (3.58%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.93%) Grafana
6 9 (2.93%) Puppet
7 7 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.95%) Istio
9 5 (1.63%) logstash
10 4 (1.30%) WMI
11 3 (0.98%) Podman
11 3 (0.98%) Salt
12 2 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.65%) Icinga
12 2 (0.65%) Nagios
13 1 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.33%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (11.07%) Databricks
2 27 (8.79%) Google
3 26 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 22 (7.17%) Oracle
5 16 (5.21%) VMware
6 13 (4.23%) IBM
7 11 (3.58%) Informatica
8 7 (2.28%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.95%) Foundry
9 6 (1.95%) Palantir
9 6 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.95%) Talend
9 6 (1.95%) Zend
10 4 (1.30%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.30%) Sybase
11 3 (0.98%) Duck Creek
11 3 (0.98%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.98%) Rackspace
11 3 (0.98%) Splunk
12 2 (0.65%) Sparx